480 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches glabrous. Leaves glabrous 

 above, but with a few scattered hairs beneath, 3 o-lobed ; 

 lobes acuminated, serrated. Racemes axillary, erect. 

 Peduncles pubescent. Berries nodding. Calyx campa- 

 nulate. Petals rounded at the apex. (Do)Cs Mill.) A 

 smooth shrub. Nepal, on Sirmore and Eniodi. Height 

 4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced ? in 1837. Flowers greenish 

 yellow ; April and May. Fruit red, about the size of that 

 of the red currant ; ripe in July. 



26. R. (r.) tri'fidum Michx. 

 Currant. 



The trifid-c/yxerf red 



Idenlijication. Miclix. Fl. Bor. Amer., I. 



p. 110. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 186. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 867. from a specimen 



in Sir \V. J. Hooker's herbarium. 



866. 

 R. (r.) acuminatum. 



867. a. (r.Jtrtfidum. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves smooth, moderately lobed. 

 Racemes loosely many-flowered, pubescent. Flow- 

 ers small. Calycine segments rather trifid. Ber- 

 ries hairy, red. Lobes of leaves acutish. Ra- 

 cemes weak, nearly like those of R. riibrum, but 

 the flowers smaller. Petals purplish, spathulate, 

 rounded at the apex. (Do?i's Mill.) A prostrate 

 shrub. North America, near Quebec, and at Hud- 

 son's Bay. Height 1 ft. to 2 ft. Introduced in 

 1823. Flowers purplish ; April and May. 



B. Floiuers greenish yellow, sometimes ivith the Tips of the Sepals and Petals 



red. Fruit black. 



^ 27. R. Ni^GRUM L. The black Currant. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 291. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 190. 



Synonymes. if. 61idum ilcench Meth. 683.; Capis and Foivrier, Fr. ; schwartze Johannisbeere 



Ger. ; Ribes nero, Ital. 

 Engravings. Engl. Bot., t. 1291. ; and omfig. 868. 



8R8. R ni^Tum. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves dotted from glands beneath, 3 3-lobed. Racemes 

 loose. Bracteas minute, subulate or obtuse, much shorter than the pedi- 

 cels. Petals oblong. Calyx campanulate, with reflexed segments. Flowers 

 whitish, or yellowish green. Calyx often of a rich brownish red colour, 

 or pink. Stamens sometimes more than 3, in which case there are fewer 

 petals ; so that when there are 10 stamens there are no petals. This 

 change of petals into stamens :-s just the reverse of the process by which : 

 .single flowers become double; and it is the only fact of the kind which has | 

 hitherto been observed. Stigmas bifid. Berries globose, black, glandular. 

 (Don's Mill.) A shrub with smoothish branches, strong-smelling leaves. 



